The American Securities and Exchange committee has published the agenda of its next round table, “Defi and the American Spirit”, scheduled for June 9 at its headquarters in Washington, DC.
Organized by the agency’s crypto working group, the half-day event is the fifth of an in progress series designed to explore the regulatory approaches to digital assets. The last session will focus specifically on the DEFI sector.
The round table will take place for about four hours and will start with the opening remarks of SEC officials, notably President Paul Atkins and Commissioner Hester Peirce, who also leads the working group.
Atkins and Peirce have both previously stressed the importance of making a regulatory environment which allows the innovation of challenge to prosper without compromising investors’ protections.
Intersection of US and American regulatory principles
The main discussion, entitled “DEFI and the American spirit”, will take place from 1:30 to 3:00 pm and will be led by the former commissioner of the Sec, Troy Paredes.
The panel will bring together the opinion leaders of universities, legal circles and the blockchain industry to examine how DEFI platforms reflect basic American values such as autonomy, open participation and market innovation.
Subjects should include the potential for peer -to -peer protocols to operate without intermediaries, the challenges of regulating intelligent contracts and the risks and advantages of decentralized governance.
The event is open to the public and will be broadcast live on the SEC website. Although virtual participation does not require registration, participants in person must register in advance.
Continuous effort towards clarity
This round table is the last of the “Sprint Sprint to Crypto Clarity” of the Sec, an initiative in several parts launched in March 2025 to collect comments from the industry and clarify the regulatory policy.
The series has opened with a session on how and the moment when digital assets are considered to be titles, followed by discussions on the regulation of cryptographic trading platforms, the custody of digital assets and the tokenization of traditional financial instruments.
Each round table has gathered legal researchers, technologists and finance professionals to examine how existing rules meet with emerging models of blockchain.
With Defi questioning traditional regulatory hypotheses, the next round table should be one of the most essential to date. It will explore if DEFI can be integrated significantly into the American regulatory framework while preserving its fundamental principles of openness and autonomy.
